Part 1 Speech processing, its specificity and its relation to reading: the relation of speech to reading and writing, A.M. Liberman; the recognition of lexical units in speech, A. Cutler, J.M. McQueen; on the linguistic module in auditory memory, R.G. Crowder, A.M. Surprenant; gestures, features and segments inearly child speech, M. Studdert-Kennedy, E. Whitney-Goodel. Part 2 Speech and reading in different modalities: language by touch - the case of braille reading, P. Bertelson; prelingual deafness and literacy - a new look at old ideas, R. Campbell, V. Burden; memory deficits for heard and lip-read speech in young and adult poor readers, B. de Gelder, J. Vroomen. Part 3 Reading in different orthographies: cognitive processes in writing Chinese characters - basic issues and some preliminary data, S.-P. Law, A. Caramazza; phonological processes in Serbo-Croatian and English, G. Lukatela, M.T. Turvey; non- semantic reading in Kanji and English - universal and specific language features, S. Sasanuma, K. Patterson; learning to be a conspirator - a tale of becoming a good Chinese reader, J.L. Ovid Tzeng et al. Part 4 Reading acquisition and its impact on language processes: phonological and grammatical skills in learning to read, P. Bryant; the impact of learning to read on the functional anatomy of language processing, T.H. Carr, M.I. Posner; literacy and linguistic awareness, P. Karanth et al; the consequences of phonemic awareness, J. Morais, R. Kolinsky; mechanisms of word-retrieval - neuropsychological investigations of patients with Parkinson's disease, J. Gurd, J.M. Marshall.
